Before and after Eilat: Israeli air strikes are no different than militant rocket attacks - Sixteen Minutes to Palestine
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On Tuesday, two days before the Eilat attacks, the Israeli air force launched a series of night bombing raids that targeted civilian population centers in Rafah, Khan Younis, and Gaza City — three of the five largest cities in the Gaza Strip. Six Palestinians were confirmed dead. Some were attached to Hamas, although none of them were engaging in any hostile or threatening activity. Others were, as Israel’s defensemen regularly term, “collateral damage”.
Assume for the sake of the Israeli government’s argument that the Eilat attacks were indeed carried out by the most ‘vile of Palestinian creatures’. This raises a very fair question: could the coordinated Eilat attacks in fact be a response to the seemingly unprovoked Gaza Strip bombings two days ago? After all, if Israel has a right to retaliate, so does everyone else.